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This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment
for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.

Julia McKinne Foster Weed was the daughter of U.S. Representative Thomas Fournoy Foster
and Elizabeth (Gardner) Foster, and the wife of the Rev. Edwin Gardner Weed, Episcopal
bishop of Florida from 1886 to 1924. She was president-general of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy from 1899 to 1901. The collection is chiefly personal letters of members of the Foster, Gardner, and
Weed families of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky, with some
poems. Most of the letters were written from Georgia, 1850-1867. Included is correspondence
from Julia McKinne Foster Weed in Augusta and Elberton, Ga.; letters to Margaret Gardner,
who appears to have been Julia's aunt; and letters to and from other relatives. There
are also letters, 1845-1856, from a father offering religious advice to his daughters
in Connecticut and Rhode Island, and a detailed description of a journey from Georgia
to Louisville, Ky., in 1865.

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as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Julia McKinne Foster Weed Papers #2783-z, Southern
Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications
of America as part of Southern women and their families in the 19th century, Series
A.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Margaret Weed of Jacksonville, Florida, in April 1944 and March 1950.

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Julia McKinne Foster Weed, the daughter of Thomas Flournoy Foster and Elizabeth Gardner
Foster, was born in Columbus, Ga., in July 1846. Her father, a state legislator and
U.S. representative, died when she was five years old, and she was raised by her mother
in Burke County, Ga. During the Civil War, the family moved to Elberton, Ga.. After
the war, they lived in Augusta, until Julia Foster married the Rev. Edwin G. Weed
of Savannah. In 1886, Edwin Weed became the Episcopal bishop of Florida. Julia Weed
lived in Florida until her death in 1908.

From 1899 to 1901, Julia Weed was president-general of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, and she remained active in the organization until her death.

The collection consists primarily of personal letters, mostly concerning family news,
visits, and other routine subjects. Most letters are addressed to Julia McKinne Foster
Weed, including many from Samuel Lumpkin of Americus, Ga., and Joseph Winthrop Moses
of Montgomery, Ala. (presumably relatives of the Foster or Gardner families).

The earliest letters are chiefly personal letters to Margaret Gardner (probably the
sister of Julia Weed's mother) from her husband, and letters from S. C. Dunning of
Savannah giving paternal and religious advice to his daughters Sarah (Mrs. Weed) in
Connecticut and Gertrude in Rhode Island. There are a number of letters dated between
1863 and 1867 signed "Gardner" or with the initials H. K. G. Also included are letters of Henry G. Weed of Savannah
and T. G. Foster of Montgomery, Ala.

Also included in the collection are about fifteen poems, mostly anonymous.